The Donna Brazile - Karl Rove Connection
By The City Edition on July 27, 2008 at 8:01 AM in DNC, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Donna Brazile, Florida, George Stephanopoulos, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, Iowa, Karl Rove, Lobbyists, Nancy Pelosi, Ohio, Republicans, Rules and Bylaws Committee, South Carolina, Texas, Valerie Plame Wilson, Washington state
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In order to “save” the Democratic Party, Brazile resolved back in 2003 that she might have to destroy it first. And who better to help her in this lofty pursuit than her new best friend, the man neoconservatives call “The Architect”.
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BY ROSEMARY REGELLO
It’s not every activist politico who gets to write a post in the Washington Times that begins like this: "As I sat by my window and staring out at the wonderful Washington, D.C., landscape, my office announced a phone call from Air Force One."
Evidently, Donna Brazile was reminding all the little people on Capitol Hill that she had friends in high places. In summer of 2007, Bush senior advisor Karl Rove wasn’t answering any subpoenas from Congress, but he didn’t mind talking to Brazile. From his perch at 20,000 feet, he informed her that this was probably a good time for him to get out of Dodge.
“Mr. Rove’s resignation is not a retirement,” Brazile reassured readers of the right of center newspaper. “It’s just another opportunity for him to create that lasting Republican majority he envisioned years ago and to spend his waking days doing what he so enjoys — beating Democrats in the alleys and gutters. Just ask Sen. Hillary Clinton, Mr. Rove’s target when he called in to speak to Rush Limbaugh. He couldn’t help it. Mr. Rove just had to take one last shot before riding out of town. More to come, Team Clinton.”
Brazile’s breezy account confirms what many have long since suspected. Rove’s claim to be sitting out the 2008 race is hogwash. The mastermind of today’s unraveling U.S. constitution is in no position to kick back, down gin fizzes and watch the country collapse under an Administration he put into office twice. The list of crimes that Bush’s top henchman could potentially be charged with - everything from fraud to war crimes - should be enough to keep him and his fellow Sopranos in hair-trigger mode until the next president gets sworn in. And the notion that he’d leave the choice of commander-in-chief in less capable dirty hands than his own requires more than the willing suspension of disbelief. It requires medication.
That’s why the Rove-Brazile tryst merits further exploration. They first hooked up some time in 2002, according to a New York Times article. The connection might have been a means for Brazile to expand her clientele, but she dismissed that angle in an interview, implying she had bigger fish to fry. It was the Democrats’ lackluster relations with African Americans and poor track record in elections, she said, that led her to start trailblazing new frontiers. To put it in a Brazile nutshell, the Republicans had a better machine.
”The idea is to re-energize the African-American electorate and revive the Democratic Party at the same time,” she told Times reporter Katharine Seelye, ”I want to revitalize the party from the grass roots up. We’re losing voters.”
With that noble cause in mind, she and Rove began to "chirpily exchange e-mail, chat on the phone and write letters, indulging in their shared zeal for the inner workings of politics," Seelye wrote.
Rove said he’d sometimes call Brazile before a press appearance to get feedback on various Bush policy angles he planned to discuss. In exchange, he furnished Brazile’s clients with access to White House social events.
"People think I’m crazy talking to Karl Rove," the strategist confessed to the Washington Post a month after the Times story appeared, "but there’s something about this guy."
Yes, there certainly is something about Karl Rove. In consultation with Vice-President Cheney’s office, it was Rove who outed Valerie Plame’s C.I.A. identity over a flap about uranium in Niger. Three years later, those subpoenas were overflowing his in-box because he’d told Alberto Gonzalez to fire nine U.S. Attorneys who refused to do his bidding. Rove is also under investigation for an entrapment scheme that put Alabama Democratic Governor Don Siegelman in prison for two years.
Those Republicans sure do know how to close the deal in politics. In addition to basking in The Architect’s dapper charm and irresistible company, Brazile opened diplomatic ties across town with archconservative Grover Norquist. Norquist heads one of Jack Abramoff’s favorite charities, Americans for Tax Reform, and is famous for his remark that he’d like to see federal government crippled to the point where he can take it home and drown it in his bathtub. For a brief window of opportunity, he set aside that morbid fantasy to help one of Brazile’s closest friends, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes, push some legislation to increase revenues in her district.
According to the same Times article, “Mr. Norquist said he and Ms. Brazile, both Washington residents, were devising a plan to urge Congress to allow the city to raise the height limit on buildings as a way to broaden the tax base and improve schools.”
Brazile served as Holmes’ chief of staff and press secretary during the nineties. In that same action-packed year, her old boss teamed up with other D.C. officials to schedule an unauthorized, nonbinding earlybird presidential primary for 2004. DNC chair Terry McAuliffe sent sent out calls to the candidates to boycott the affair, but Howard Dean didn’t heed the directive. The former Vermont governor swept into D.C. and gobbled up almost as many endorsements as another candidate, Rev. Al Sharpton. Who needed those arcane DNC rules, anyway?
The Brazile Factor
At the time of these contentious political developments, Brazile chaired the DNC’s Voting Rights Institute, a program set up after the Florida recount debacle in 2000. During that earlier episode, she’d experienced firsthand Karl Rove’s unscrupulous knack for snatching victory from the jaws of defeat. Now she was tasked with brainstorming new strategies to prevent any future gaming of the electoral system.
In 2004, Dean ended his presidential bid after the Wisconsin primary and Kerry lost the general election. This time, Rove generated thousands of extra Bush votes in key Ohio precincts where only a few hundred Republicans lived. Not surprisingly, Brazile remained unimpressed with her party. That winter, she submitted an essay for the left-leaning website Slate.com, which was running a series called “Why Americans Hate Democrats – A Dialog”.
Hard as it must have been to top that inspirational title, the political strategist managed with her piece “Tapping the Obama Factor”. The Chicago politician had just been elevated to the U.S. Senate, but instead of offering an introduction to him, she mostly dwelled on her own life story - rising up from poverty in Louisiana, listening to her grandmother read scripture, etc. etc. Eventually, the essay worked its way back to the stated topic.
"This is a new moment to identify and recruit better messengers," she wrote. "Perhaps it’s time to tap into the ‘Obama’ factor: Scour statehouses for young, energetic, inspiring, and emerging leaders with the ability to connect the head and heart. Too many of the old Democratic guard have stayed in Washington, D.C., too long to fully recognize how most Americans live their lives."
It was a novel way to spin the Illinois election. Obama did score a landslide victory that year, but it had little to do with his age, energy level or the obsolete nature of the Democratic Party establishment. His campaign manager David Axelrod ran the classic Rovian smear campaign, first accusing Obama’s top primary contender of sexual impropriety. After disgracing Blair Hull out of contention, Axelrod used the same device against the G.O.P. primary winner, Jack Ryan.
Of course, this is where things get interesting. House Speaker Dennis Hastert decided he must stick his oar into the battle, calling on Ryan to end his senate bid. The candidate dutifully bowed out, and in his stead, the Illinois Republican Party fielded an unknown, African American bible-thumper from Maryland named Alan Keyes. Clearly, the G.O.P. wanted Obama to win that election. No other explanation can account for the party sacrificing a senate seat to a (supposedly) liberal Democrat who’d (supposedly) spoken out against the Iraq War in 2002.
A Hollywood script writer couldn’t have come up with this storyline. Within a year of arriving in Washington, Brazile’s rising star – the product of a globe-trotting Kansas woman and a philandering tribal leader in Kenya - had launched his presidential exploratory committee. The Internet fundraising team of Howard Dean signed on for the ride. So, too, did some of Wall Street’s biggest investment banks, corporate law firms, and energy giants. By the end of 2007, Obama would post a record-breaking haul of $100 million in campaign contributions. And all while he was still "introducing himself", as Brazile and other analysts put it, to the American public.
Who exactly brought the banks and oil companies to the table still remains to be ferreted out, but it wasn’t Dean or Brazile, or even the man who placed Obama on the speaker’s list at the 2004 Democratic Convention, John Kerry. It’s more likely that Karl Rove huddled with top Bush fundraisers to set that gravy train in motion. Among the candidate’s money bundlers were George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar, both oil industry executives. Other Bush campaign pioneers joined the bandwagon soon afterward.
Now Brazile was impressed. Judging from another My Day installment penned in 2005, following Hurricane Katrina, she sounded like a woman who had been born again:
“While my family was hurting, when they were on the edge feeling left to fend for themselves, the last thing I wanted to do was whine. I got into the groove quickly and contacted Ken Melhman, Chairman of the Republican National Committee and an old friend, Karl Rove, Deputy Chief of Staff for the White House.”
Then she started tossing out the cupcakes: “President Bush, who promised to rebuild the Gulf coast in a speech at Jackson Square, invited some African American leaders over to the White House on December 7th to discuss a broad range of issues…To my great surprise, the meeting with President Bush was cordial and candid. The President listened intently and reassured us that his Administration would not drop the ball.”
Funny how such innocuous fluff takes on a new and sinister meaning when read in hindsight. Yet even from the perspective of a contemporary audience, those claims were a stetch. For people living in New Orleans, the Katrina ball had already been dropped. When the levees broke, Sec. of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff was attending a conference on bird flu, the President relaxing on his Crawford ranch. Back in Brazile’s home state, over a thousand people drowned during three days of waiting for rescuers to reach their homes. Several million homeless residents survived, homeless, only to a second disaster called FEMA.
But Brazile didn’t let facts on the ground spoil her picnic. Continuing her upbeat dispatch, “Since then, I have met once more with President Bush and other leaders who are committed to working together to restore the lives and the communities devastated by these two hurricanes…I can tell from the meetings that the rebuilding of Louisiana remains high on his list of priorities.”
Preparing for Battle
One can only speculate on Brazile’s motives in streaming out that hallucination. As she would mention in the Washington Times article two years later, her “old friend” Rove had hit the ground running with the start of the 2008 election cycle, appearing on talk shows to bash frontrunner Hillary Clinton. Behind the scenes, G.O.P. rank and file activists were organizing crossover voting drives to knock Clinton out of the race before November. In the red states, they could easily outnumber Democrats at the caucuses, enriching Obama’s delegate count and allowing him to boast later “I’ve won more states.”
To recruit additional foot troops for this effort, New Hampshire G.O.P. leader Stephen DaMaura started the Facebook website “Stop Hillary Clinton (One Million Strong AGAINST Hillary).”
On the Democratic side, it became Brazile’s job to smooth over Obama’s path to the nomination. That required manipulating the primary calendar. Picking up on the diversity argument of Eleanor Holmes and the D.C. coalition, she pressed for an earlybird South Carolina primary and a Nevada caucus to augment the Iowa and New Hampshire dates.
While the advantages of South Carolina were obvious, by necessity the second contest required a less obvious, more covert action plan to avoid any accusations of stacking the deck. Although the Clinton camp didn’t realize it at the time, a caucus in Nevada (like a caucus anywhere) would naturally benefit Obama, since her base of blue-collar, older and non-English-speaking supporters would not be driving across town to attend some meeting run by disorganized volunteers. On the other hand, motivated Republicans could be counted on to show up, especially if the G.O.P. candidates could be persuaded not to campaign in the state. (They didn’t.)
Nevertheless, the reason for adding more earlybird contests in the first place centered on ethic diversity, so selling the DNC (and the public) on Nevada required some tweaking of those caucus parameters. That’s why arrangements were made to allow the state’s casino workforce of some 60,000 predominantly Latino workers to attend specially set up caucus sites just for them.
But wouldn’t this huge Hispanic voting block put Clinton over the top in Nevada? Not necessarily. It turns out that the union representing casino employees, S.E.I.U., would be backing Obama, just as they had supported Dean in his presidential bid. So those voters could now be added to the Obama column.
Thus, with caucuses scheduled in Iowa and Nevada, a primary in South Carolina with its near majority African American demographic, and the New Hampshire Republican brass on the job in that state, the chance of Clinton heading into Super Tuesday at cruising altitude had spectacularly diminished.
“Including two more states will not only be good for our country, it will be good for our party and good for our nominee," Brazile told the Los Angeles Times in August 2006.
Sounding an early portent of doom, the South Carolina delegate on the rules committee said in the same article, “If you campaign in a state that is outside the rules, then you’re not entitled to delegates from that state."
A year later, that scenario unfolded like a bad dream for the DNC. Over the objections of Florida’s state Democratic Party, a Republican-controlled legislature moved its primary to January 29, 2008, one week before the official February 5th cusp adopted by both the Republican National Committee and the DNC.
On August 25, 2007. the DNC rules and bylaws committee met to adjudicate this unspeakable crime. State party chair Karen Thurman testified at the meeting, walking the committee through the chronology of her long and fruitless battle to overturn the date switch. The Republicans had attached it as a rider to another bill, one authorizing the replacement of electronic paperless voting equipment with more traditional optical scanners. Unable to defeat the rider on a partyline vote, the Democrats begrudgingly approved the larger measure.
Anyone who has watched the re-broadcast of those DNC proceedings on CSPAN can’t help but be dumbfounded by the discussion that followed Thurman’s presentation. A slam-dunk case for a rule waiver turned into a shameless bout of piling on, as committee member Brazile and several others accused the state party of not trying hard enough to change the date. (One also noticed from the broadcast the unusually high number of African Americans on the 30-member committee, as opposed to near zero representation for other minorities.)
When asked by Brazile why she hadn’t made any plans to hold a caucus in place of the primary, Thurman balked. The logistics and $8 million price tag, she said, were beyond comprehension, given that Florida boasts 4 million eligible Democrats.
"I understand how states crave to be first,” Brazile blustered in a Washington Post interview the next day, as if none of what Thurman told her had registered. “I understand that they’re envious of the role that Iowa and New Hampshire have traditionally played, The truth is, we had a process . . . We’re going to back these rules."
Later, the head of the DNC Voting Rights Institute published an op-ed in the same newspaper, this time under the combative heading, “Why We Stood Up to Florida”. With the cockiness that was fast becoming her trademark, Brazile griped, “It was hardly an extraordinary act, although you wouldn’t know it from the furious reaction that ensued in some quarters…Why the uproar? It’s simple: state envy.”
She went on to list all the economic benefits coveted by states vying to hold early primaries, again diverting from the core issue of Republican meddling in Democratic affairs. Inexplicably, the press coverage of the showdown also overlooked the G.O.P.’s role in moving up the primary date.
The same week the rules committee stripped Florida of all its convention delegates, Michigan’s state legislature voted to move up its primary to January 15th. Both states could have easily been pegged as Clinton strongholds, making their exclusion from the election cycle suspect. Michigan is an industrial blue-collar enclave with few of the upper-middle-class voters and college students that represent Obama’s base. Florida’s Hispanic population is huge, and combined with an abundant supply of New York retirees, would likely also resist the Obama "surge".
Moreover, using Republican crossover voting to shave points off Clinton’s victories posed problems in both states. In Michigan, native son Mitt Romney had a significant campaign apparatus in place, while Rudi Giuliani was expecting to draw his line in the sand in Florida. Where these battleground territories were in play, neither gentleman would appreciate Rove siphoning away their voters. Better just to invalidate the primaries on the Democratic side. That way, Clinton’s delegate lead could be held in check on Super Tuesday.
"Seeds of Doubt"
With the votes of the country’s fourth and eighth largest states thus consigned to the junk heap, Brazile turned to other pursuits. Hired as a paid election analyst for CNN, she carried on a double life - one as an official DNC spokesperson, the other as a partisan campaigner for Barack Obama. In February, when best-guess estimates gave Clinton the support of two-thirds of the superdelegates, she declared, "If 795 of my colleagues decide this election, I will quit the Democratic Party."
If party leaders were as worried about negative fallout and damage control then as they claimed to be a month later, they might have reeled in their contract employee at this point for a heart-to-heart chat. That didn’t happen. Brazile just reloaded her pistol and repeated her empty threat to all who would listen. On another occasion, she accused former President Bill Clinton of being a racist. It was inexcusable, she said, that during a speech Clinton referred to Obama as a "kid" and suggested his presidential bid amounted to little more than a "fairy tale".
"And I will tell you," Brazile bristled with emotion, "as an African American I find his words and his tone to be very depressing."
To be sure, Clinton said Obama’s evolving position on the Iraq War was a fairy tale, not his candidacy. As for alluding to his youth, Brazile and other cheerleaders for the Illinois senator had been doing it themselves for the past four years. It was a classic example of the Mark Twain quip that a lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth has put its shoes on. Only CNN’s presence in the equation gave the adage literal meaning. Surely, the DNC would intervene now that Brazile had insulted a former Democratic president on national television. But nothing.
Notwithstanding the character smears and 24/7 swiftboating by the American media, Sen. Clinton persevered, scoring big wins in the Texas, Rhode Island and Ohio on March 4th. On March 5th, she was accused of engaging in a “negative” campaign designed to "destroy" her adversary.
“Despite Obama’s impressive victories in February, Clinton’s comeback is based on sowing political seeds of doubt,” Brazile informed the Associated Press that day, “If these attacks are contrasts based on policy differences, there is no need to stop the race or halt the debate. But, if this is more division, more diversion from the issues and more of the same politics of personal destruction, chairman Dean and other should be on standby."
(ABC’s Jake Tapper went Brazile one better, claiming Clinton was exercising the "Tanya Harding option".)
In response to the call to arms, Dean promptly petitioned Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi to intervene in the protracted race, while Senators Dodd, Richardson and Leahy demanded that Clinton end her candidacy for the good of the party.
Now this sounded familiar. Jack Ryan must have been chuckling to himself from his perch inside a bar, drinking rot-gut whiskey. In Washington, meanwhile, Reid promised that “things will be done” to determine a nominee before the convention. Pelosi told George Stephanopolis on his Sunday talk show that the superdelegates should not overturn “the will of the people”, but denied rumors that she was telling members of Congress that Clinton, if nominated, would be a "drag" on their own campaigns. As the Democratic Party version of the Adams Family was thus occupied in their hand-wringing, chest-beating and sharing of apocalyptic visions, Clinton pressed ahead, picking up 9 out of the final 13 primaries. Three of them she won by more than 30 points.
But no sooner had the daylight begun to shine at the end of the tunnel when another Rove-Brazile shoe dropped. For some reason, her triumph in the popular vote was not matched proportionally by delegates earned, and it had something to do with Obama’s phenomenal gains in the caucus states of Idaho, Nebraska, Kansas, etc. One would not have expected an African American liberal to clobber his opponent by a two-to-one margin as he did in many cases. More importantly, her delegate gains in the primaries involving millions of voters seemed to pale in comparison. This made no sense.
In late May, a disability activist named P. Cronin appeared on scene to sort out the Twilight Zone phenomenon. Cronin, who like most disabled people is not a big fan of caucuses, spent some time in late May analyzing the tallies from the 2008 Democratic contest, comparing the impact of the two different voting methods on the race.
According to Cronin’s study, nearly all of Obama’s 138-delegate lead over Clinton could be traced to 12 red state caucuses. In most of these contests he routinely won by 2-1 margins, even though polls in those states showed the candidates much closer. In Idaho, for instance, with its scant African American population, few colleges and relatively few Starbucks outlets, he captured 15 of the state’s 18 delegates.
Something fishy was going on here. Did Dean’s so-called 50-state strategy include the recruitment of pro-Obama activists to organize on the candidate’s behalf in caucus states? Did the number of DaMaura’s G.O.P. crossover voters wildly exceed expectations? Or was there just downright lying in the computation of the vote tallies?
The case of Washington state underscores the mystery of this Bermuda Triangle for Clinton delegates. On February 9th, Obama earned a whopping 52 of the Washington’s 78 delegates after a 36-point victory in the party-run caucus. Over 240,000 allegedly eligible voters cast ballots in that contest. But a week later, just ahead of a state-run certified primary, the polling data showed that Clinton might actually win the election. On February 19th, after 650,000 ballots were counted Obama eked out a 5-point victory, hardly the 2-1 margin responsible for his 26-delegate net gain in the state. Unfortunately, the primary was non-binding.
Cronin notes in the study that those states that furnished the newcomer’s vast delegate booty contribute a grand total of 69 electoral votes in the general election. Few of these territories have voted Democratic since 1964.
It also appears that the votes of those lucky caucus-goers counted for 5-10 times more than the traditional Democrats who attended primaries. Obama netted more delegates in his Idaho win, for instance, than Clinton in her entire Ohio-Texas-Rhode Island romp on March 4th. The following table illustrates the questionable validity of these dispersements. Notice that the last column shows the delegate gain for the winner:
2008 Democratic Presidential Preference Election © 2008 P. Cronin
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Even in the Navada caucus that Clinton won, Obama was awarded more delegates. The New York senator couldn’t seem to win for winning. There, the S.E.I.U. endorsement dissolved into wishful thinking when the casino workers broke for Clinton two to one, giving her a 6-point victory. A few months later, Obama left the state convention with 3 more delegates.
While there’s no evidence implicating Dean in Obama’s caucus routs, the DNC had maintained staff on the ground in all 50 states since 2005, when he first became the chair. In August 2007, a few weeks before his rules and bylaws committee stripped Florida of its delegates, he announced in a press release that his 50-State Strategy project, the Voting Rights Institute and another DNC division known as the National Lawyers Council were collaborating on a nationwide survey of voter databases, registration procedures and other "election mechanics". According to the release, DNC staff would work with local election boards in gathering information in advance of the 2008 presidential election. "Protecting the right of every eligible American to vote is a top priority for our party," Dean and Brazile said in a joint statement. "Every eligible American deserves the confidence that when they go to the polls to cast their ballot they can do so without fear of intimidation or harassment, and that their vote will be counted fairly and accurately."
Throwing Mama Under the Bus
On May 31, 2008, the rules committee reconvened to discuss those "eligible Americans" living in Florida and Michigan. A week before the meeting, the Democratic Party tried to attach an air of legitimacy to the proceedings by having legal counsel weigh in on the dispute. Although by Brazile’s own account, the Supreme Court gives political parties wide latitude for determining how they pick their nominees, the lawyers claimed it would be unlawful to fully honor the certified votes of January 15th and 29th . The committee could do no more than restore half the nearly 350 convention delegates up for grabs.
Always amenable to compromise, the Clinton campaign accepted that limitation but rejected a proposal for Obama to receive some of her Michigan delegates, plus those of all the other candidates in the Michigan primary. After all, the Illinois senator voluntarily withdrew his name from the ballot, then vetoed a re-do primary which Clinton donors raised $10 million to fund. In a sane world, one could argue that he forfeited the state and therefore deserved no delegates.
Former Governor of Michigan Jim Blanchard didn’t present that line of attack, however. The Clinton spokesman stuck to the modest request that the candidate receive delegates in proportion to the votes cast for her. A few minutes later, it was Brazile’s turn to speak, and the CNN analyst first took the opportunity to congratulate herself for displaying restraint in the meeting up until that point. Then she repudiated Blanchard as if he were a child.
"My mama taught me to play by the rules and respect the rules…When you decide to change the rules, especially, in the middle of the game, it’s called cheating."
Dispatching the governor to go stand and in a corner and contemplate the error of his ways, Brazile’s committee allocated the Michigan delegates according to a fruitcake-like recipe involving exit polls, alleged write-in votes for Obama, the palm-reading of a psychic (just kidding) and the actual tally. In the end, Clinton gained a mere 4.5 delegates from the contest.
Any masochist following the 2008 election knew by then that Brazile had disregarded her own mother’s counsel long ago. Neither she nor her co-horts have lost any sleep over the thousands of complaints filed about the conduct of the caucuses, including some 2,000 submitted in Texas alone. Voter intimidation, stacks of fabricated sign-in sheets slipped in with the legitimate records, phony declarations from Republicans about their intention to switch parties, votes delayed until deep into the night, inaccurate tallies called in by phone, and other dirty tricks have yet to warrant even a cursory investigation by those who preach that playing by the rules represents a core value of the Democratic Party.
Even in the aftermath of her power grab, Brazile continues to denigrate those who challenge the authority of the party’s new African American leadership. In a July 22nd post on Daryl Cagle’s website, she groaned, "How many ways do these Hillary delegates, voters and supporters need to hear it before they get it? Sen. Barack Obama is the party’s nominee. He won. He will get to choose his running mate. Obama sets the agenda for the convention, and, while I understand their passion in wanting Hillary to be on the ticket and to have a prominent role at the convention, it’s not her decision… As much as we all would have loved to see a woman in the Oval Office, it wasn’t Hillary’s time. Period."
It’s ironic when you think about it. The DNC’s Voting Rights Institute was created to stop exclusionary practices and increase participation at the polling booth. Now its chairwoman is presiding over one of the most hostile and fraudulent campaigns since those newspaper delivery trucks ran over the boy scouts in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
"Mr. Rove proved you can win elections with rumors, fear, division and manipulation." Brazile wrote back in 2007, after that friendly exchange with Air Force One. "But you can’t win hearts that way."
No, you can’t. But then, this influential political fixer no longer appears to have use for that particular organ. Which may be why she finds men like Karl Rove and Grover Norquist so appealing.
- Rosemary Regello editor@thecityedition.com
(For more on the G.O.P. manipulation of the Democratic Primaries, see our in-depth report Bamboozling the American Electorate Again)
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Great Article. Finally indepth about Commissar Donna Brazeal who I have suspected of being a republican whore for a while. Makes perfect sense. Wonder when they will expose Dean the Putz.
Very appreciated article, however that photo just did a number on my breakfast.
Can anyone name the species of that dead animal Commissar Donna Brazeal sports on her head….and is it a species native to America ?
Poll-cat, I presume.
Perfect..lol!
agree….LOL….Aaaaand You Sir WIN A STUFFED ARMADILLO !
I see a lot of roadkill at night when I throw my paper route. Do you think Donna Brazile would like a dead armadillo. lol
Excuse me but, I guess you all didn’t notice the hair on the other people in the the picture? Her hair looks better than theirs.
The comment is pushing the envelope.
And remember, I despise 0bama as well as Brazile.
You mean pushing the racist envelope coz the comments are about an AA’s hair-do?
Gimmeabreak.
The Cruella de Ville low-lites make her look as well as smell like she’s wearing a dead skunk.
No one can say THAT analogy isn’t PC.
Hmmmm….Mimi the hair of the other folks ( or lack of it ) just wasn’t as lively. I didn’t mean to offend….but I have been fascinated by the do and it’s independent antics for quite some time….just havin some fun.
As always I do pay attention to what you write….Scuse’
*** BTW….I do a good impression of ERASERHEAD most mornings…chuckle…. ***
So is this another on the long-list of forbidden comments/remarks/observations about the Obramas?
Like black hole, monkey, fairy-tale, his-middle-name?
Cruella brought this on herself with her swaggering, pompous, arrogant,loud-mouthed, nasty control-freak self.
Haven’t you heard it’s racist to comment on Cruella’s hair-do?
Listen basil:
Mimi is a stauch supporter of Hillary Clinton and they do not come more outspoken or passionate. Brazile is a bitch but if we are going to get into “physical” namecalling lets look at Candy Crowley, or Jack Cafferty. Or how about Andrea “if only they had Proactive solution during my teen years” Mitchell.
Don’t go after Mimi…
And me, I would like to kick Brazile’s fat ass all the way back to Louisiana. There is plenty to go after Brazile with. Mimi has enough crap to put up with from fellow AA’s who think she’s a turncoat for not supporting Obama.
Think before you twist the knife because it just could be “friendly fire”! Capice?
Yes - degrading people based on their physical appearance is an unfortunately widespread form of bullying.
I agree totally- However, I can’t seem to refrain myself from ragging on MEchelle’s arms. C’mon she looks like Ru-Paul in those sleeveless dresses! But I promise, I will do a good deed for each time I comment that her arms look like a drag queens.
The article is about Brazille, not Cadaverdy, Tweetie, Ogreman or any of the other despicable characters in this tragi-comedy.
If you’re going to put yourself center-stage you should expect the anaylsis on every level, including the physical. Brazille certainly hasn’t been shy about telling the
‘base’ (code for bitter white blue-collar gun-slinging bible-toting Americans) to stay home so I think a little humor about her unfortunate hair-dos or in her case,
hair-dont’s, is totally within bounds.
I don’t know anything about Mimi’s heritage and IMHO it shouldn’t matter. I thought this was an open forum?
good God, no shit….
Step away from the “w” word while describing a woman. I know you mean political whore, but just step AWAY.
I actually mean whore in the classic definition which by the way is gender nuetral…..even in the bible.
Whore = for sale to anybody
Dean the Putz is a political Whore as well….IMHO and in America presently I still have the right to express….despite the PC Police….
I hate that word to be honest but it’s no where near as insulting as the C word of which I will NEVER type.
To me it is as hostile a word as the N word. Yep, women have been as heinously treated as any AA man and I especially feel bad for AA women (in general). The C insult is shared universally by all females on every continent!
The N word can NOT be shared by all MEN (of course) of which NONE of the WHITE men ever seem to justly quantify.
Ok maybe not all but MOST white men are the biggest abusers of the C word towards women.
I just hate it. (I’ve seen good women’s eyes roll back in their heads when they hear a women being called a C.
I used to love Bill Mayr (SP) until I heard him use that recently. Now he is nothing but a P.O.S. pencil dick pervert.
According to Whoopie it’s perfectly OK for people of color to use the “N” word when referring to one another because they’ve ‘earned’ that right but no one else is allowed to say it.
Poor Elizabeth H. That made her cry.
I dont view the C word as indicative of gender. A male can be a C, as well as a woman. Its descriptive of a state of attitude. Same with the N word. I don’t see it as reflective of any particular color. It indicates to me an attitude of dominance that one person holds over another. Such as an abusive person over their spouse, and their attitude of treatment of them. The P word likewise is descriptive of personality rather than gender. As is the W word. But that’s just me. I don’t take offense at any of the terms per se. But then I’ve never met a word yet that I take offense at, even when its directed at me. Its attitude and actions of the speaker that matters to me, regardless of the words used to express said attitudes. Give me a gutter mouth praising over a proper etiquette verbal knife job any day. And I prefer a gutter slam any day over the polite stab and twist.
I would like to know why the comments on this article have degenerated into a discussion of which words are the most offensive and hairdos?
I am reaching the point of utter disgust. This article may not contain anything new to others, but it has explained the depth of collusion for me. And the discussion that has evolved is pathetic and childish.
Thank you Rosemany for giving me new information and old information put into context. I’m really sorry there seems to be little of the importatant issues you have raised being discussed and which we could use to prevent this kind of manipulation from happening again. I guess we don’t need trolls on this blog to distract us.
I can’t remember where, but someone said being PC is like picking up the clean end of a turd, for what it’s worth.
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!
Everything has gotten…..so touchy…..
Dawnelle…..I despise the C term as well as it is a derogatory description of the female anatomy and frankly not very clever.
Of course I am hypocritical….because I do enjoy the classic Yiddish term PUTZ…..It is so apt in describing….DEAN and his behavior.
Been a resident of the South most of my life and never used the N word…..and never will.
I do use the term cracker when describing myself and the bond I share with Barry despite his conflict. The more PC it gets the more I cling to CRACKER…..Must be the recalcitrant in me when it gets too extreme….I’m just sayin’
Michelle makes prediction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESsaVSTSYxQ
My breakfast just cam up and it’s past lunch time.
Just curious - how does Michelle know she’s been held back because she’s black, and not because she’s a woman?
I’m just curious how Michelle doesn’t know she’s been held back because of her shit attitude, which has nothing to do with her being either a woman or black. I personally have always liked the challenge of being a woman. Its given me the added opportunity of using my brains more creatively to succeed. When I advance, I own my own advancement. Its all mine to cherish because I earned it. The greater the obstacles, the sweeter the success. There’s always a way to achieve your goals no matter how uneven any playing field may be. One of my fondest moments was walking onto a construction site filled with men, knowing I had the drywall contract not because of afirmative action, but because I did the best damn finish job of any taper out there. And knowing that they all knew it and respected it. They wanted me there. My contribution enhanced the finished product that we all worked on. I earned my place.
Thank you. This is a very in-depth well written article. It should be required reading for every American. I think a lot of people think things like this only happen in the movies, but I have come to see over the years that truth really is stranger than fiction.
Check out this article on The Confluence. Great graphic too!
This only confirms my suspicion that the election was rigged from the get-go. Looks like there’s a lot of house-cleaning to do after the election.
I think the level of $$ finally trumped any and all semblance of IDEOLOGY or party principles….In the New America these old fashioned notions of principles and platforms will be abolished in the quest for NATIONAL UNITY…( gulp )
As a member of the old guard, I will gladly leave the “Chicago Kid and his vigilante party”! I think Brazile is looking for the VP spot! Let’s see how they do…African Americans comprise about 13% of the population don’t they?
With Brazile, we would have Moe and Curly as running mates. Who plays Larry?
dean
I think that would Barry, himself.
It’s Bill Richardson. Red State Update provides a pretty good Larry interpretation by Richardson with Obama by his side.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsvJyJsoBLY
That is too rich. I was wrong about Curly, too. Donna would have to be Shemp. Ok, we now have Moe, Larry, and Shemp running the country. And every time they think, they weaken the nation.
Actually, I’d think that Brazile would have to be Moe in any Stooges analogy. After all, it was Moe that was presented as the smartest of the group and he was the one the others generally deferred to.
Does anyone here honestly think that Barack has the smarts necessary to pull off what Brazile has done?
Maybe she could adopt his hair style.
Moe’s or Curly’s hairstyle?
Excellent article. What Brazile has failed to recognize while living in her DC Bubble is that democrats are not republicans.
We will not quietly fall in line like the Republicans did with their take over and ultimately drove their party into the ditch and our country with it.
The DNC will drive the party into the ditch and the real democrats will throw them a rope. Of course, the DNC will then curse us, the rope and the ditch.
You’re killing me!
LOL
bingo! This has been my own contention. IF WE don’t draw a line in the sand with the DNCs coup d’etat… right now… then what will they become.
they will make the party the neo-lib fascists as opposed to the neo-cons! NO THANK YOU.
we must resist this anointment with all of our might! If they get away with this, this country will be left without ANY chance of electing a national leader of real merit.
I love my country more than any political party. I won’t “we the people” to be given REAL CHOICES. not being handed an incompetent, corrupt, pandering ass and told … do it or you are a racist.
I hate everything Obama stands for, he has NO integrity at any level…race has nothing to do with it..I wouldn’t care if he was green with purple polkadots.. I don’t like pandering lying con men.
This is a stunning expose of what really happened and why we have The Fraud as nominee. My head is spinning. Thank you, incredible work.
PUMA
The Party built be FDR no longer exists. The New Party for a New America will join hands with the Giant Wallet in the interests of Uniting the country in support of Dear Leader….
When Bullets Fly…Kindly fall neatly into pit… Rule # 12. Fascism for Dummies. also known as The Official Obama Supporters Handbook, available in 4 languages including Arabic. And Now a Comic Book with Full color Illustrations!
I’m both laughing and wincing. Ouch.
You should try Peoples Cube….those nuts a merciless and funny……
Thanks, I will.
If I had the spare dime….I would order the McCain F@#$& It ! Poster.
It is priceless….those gifted nuts go after anybody….Not for the faint hearted….only for the truly zany….Peoples Cube and NQ along with assorted NQ recommended blogs have kept me going during this nightmare….
Wow!
What fun that site is
Aaah Comrade Kevin….Welcome to the Fringe….Might as well have a little fun….Kinda like Laugh or Scream. They have got to be channelin Diogenese over there with a splash of Socrates…..I think there are definitely covert Onionheads over there and Clambake humorists…..not to mention Church of Bob folks….
That is too much. Habitat for Hamas. ROFL.
I had been lurking over there for a while….Mugwamping…
Finally joined up as a certifiable recently….Comfy on the fringe….Equal opportunity satire….All for it.
You mean there are crazier people than we?
and with a zany sense of humor….Great Graphics over there at the Cube….I like the DNC poster that says It’s not Fascist if we do it! A true Classic
The use of Rovean tactics in politics seems to have two main effects:
1) they lead to the nomination of incompetent ex-cokeheads, and
2) they destroy the party that practices them.
Democratic Follies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVFvGeRrawY
The use of Rovean tactics in politics seems to have two main effects:
1) they lead to the nomination of incompetent ex-cokeheads.
Agreed, because the ex-cokeheads don’t wield the real power, it’s the ones who put them there that do.
God help us.
Which then leads to the next question: What’s the purpose of destroying the two Political Parties, now both equally ruined in my opinion?
I’ve read that the corporate/banker funders want to destroy the constitution and want to become World leaders..the New World Order perhaps?
We already know that corporations are controlling EVERYTHING. The common man is considered a consumer and/or working peon. Our only defense that I can see are boycotts and possibly a third party.
Welcome to the New Millennium…..This is Kitchen Cabinet Corporate stuff that an old professor I had in college warned us about during St. Reagans’ first term….These folks are APOLITICAL…..We thought he was just an entertaining Crazy ol’ Coot….I’m sure he’s smirking in his grave….Bless his Enlightened Soul…..
The Constitution gets in the way of multinational business efforts. Pesky little document…
Fascist is as Fascist does….
We’ve been being tracked since the invention of the black magnetic stripe as well as our cable subscriptions, our cell phone usage, our internet usage…
The department of motor vehicles keeps a picture of us when we renew our licenses…
I was given 2 shots to choose from and the desk agent would not destroy the one I didn’t choose.
HELL YES PERRY! Exactly IT!
This, once again, shows what a low-life racist Brazile is. Another Democratic thug that has taken over the party I belonged to for over thirty years.
I truly believe that this is the beginning of the end for Donna Brazile’s career.
And I hope the beginning of congressional hearings that will land her royal ass in Jail.
I know I should read this but I have more respect for Karl Rove than I do for Donna Brazile. And I was a huge fan of hers. Used to recommend her for speaking engagements.
I will not rejoin the Democratic party until she keeps her promise to leave it since it took the Superdelegates to select Oblowme …
I will not watch any program that has her as a guest.
She is a disgrace to her party, her race and her sex. Not in that order necessarily. I won’t comment further since I have confessed not to having read the article. It’s early in the day and I may still want to eat.
I agree totally with you. as bad as karl rove is, i respect him alot more. Donna skunk hat brazille is a smug uppity negro. She is the number one reason hillary is out.
But maybe we should take heart that she’s running the show. She was Gore and Kerry’s campaign manager and look how that turned out! This woman is incompetence itself.
There is no difference between the democratic party and the republican party. Republicans serve red kool-aid and the democrats serve blue kool-aid but at the end of the day its all just sugar water. The parties are all controlled by the same group of people and benefit only the few. That should be well evident for anybody who has to pay for their own health insurance or has to put gas in their car. When ever a presidential election comes we have to choose between two people and hope we chose the one that is not as bad as the other one. We live in very sad times. Anyone who would like to know where we started should go out and watch the movie about John Adams from HBO. After which you can’t help it but to be saddened at were we ended up as a nation.
There used to be a difference between the two parties. As you will recall the move toward “mudding the waters” took place in 2000, when you had Donna Brazile as Al Gore’s campaign manager. Isn’t is convenient then that so many so-called progressives, who are now voting for Obama, were voting for Nadar in 2000 because “there was no difference between Bush and Gore, when there bloodly well was? Do you think that Brazile, was already setting that ball in motion? Me thinks so!!
The reality of this sad state of affairs is it really doesn’t matter if Obama or McCain wins. We all loose. McCain maybe a little less “compliant” about some things, unless he is going to evolve into a Teddy Roosevelt at some point.
The GOP has been tryin to rid itself of McCain….why he’s too independent.
No matter hat comes out the man’s mouth during this season….He has never been the proper lil’ GOP soldier….Now they are stuck with him as their candidate….and they don’t quiet know what to expect….It’s going to be interesting…no?
You may be onto something. McCain used to be a maverick, so maybe he’ll go along to get along until he’s in the WH and then he’ll be a strong president.
Anyway, he’s the best bet. Obama is just a puppet, an opportunist of the first order. I have no hope that he will be anything else if he gets in the WH. I’m not going to say if he gets elected, because if he gets in the WH it will be due to the same fix that the corporations put in for Dubya. And he hates white people, so I don’t look for anything good from this guy.
I suspect…that McCain has been fairly disgusted since the Coup in his own party….He is not a goosestepper….but he can play one on TV if he has to….He is conservative but also independently minded.
Teddy Roosevelt was a good allusion….His party thought he was a traitor because he was an independent thinker….Could happen
Overall I pretty much like McCain, which is strange considering that back in January I swore that if I heard him say Islamic extremist terrorists one more time, I’d smash the television. January is just a distant dream now. Please don’t tell me I’ll feel differently about my distain for Obama by November. If I do, please shoot me immediately. I’ll gladly provide the weapon, ammo and a note. LMFAO!
Speaking of health insurance–Larry Roosevelt. Wikipedia has an entry on him, and you can google the name, too. He’s president and CEO of a for-profit health insurance company, and just so happens to be on the Democrats’ Rules and Bylaws Committee. His company is one provider for the health insurance that Patrick Deval’s signature mandated in Massachusetts.
And this is how our Lord Governor lives
http://www.boston.com/realestate/gallery/0727deval/
Well you know, his wife is absolutely loaded. I wonder how much the value of her partnership in Ropes & Gray increased since he became governor?
Kevin, wasn’t this primary frustrating for us in Massachusetts? I felt like I was in the friggin’ movie “Groundhog Day”. I swear- Deval’s campaign was Axelrod’s beta version, a test run for Obama. Not only the same signs, slogans, speeches and ads- but the tactics. Exploiting the media love affair, capitalizing on the historic nature of his bid, highlighting his “biography” over substance. Arrghh! And the Republicans made the same exact error. Healy thought Gabreli would be her main dem opponent, just like the Republicans thought it was Clinton, since she was the strongest and most qualifed. Threw their energy at the wrong target, all the while Axelrod and his machine rose up the weaker canidate through back channels. ARRGGH!
I agree with most of the comments on this thread, but none more so than yours, Joe Smith. You nailed it! I jusy recently got HBO and the Adams movie is fanrastic. I highly recommend it.
This is a great piece on how Obama stole the nomination.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10004597
Remember the story about a soldier saying Obama had snubbed troops prior to a photo shoot? The soldier has partially recanted, according to this story. Does anyone think he was forced to do this? (He probably did violate military regs when he sent the e-mail.) Some reporters need to find family members of some of the soldiers out there and get to the real story.
Also, there’s ANOTHER quote from Obama about withdrawal — ace reporter Ben Smith has it.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/Obama_on_withdrawal_again.html
As to the main diary here, what I’ve read so far seems fascinating. I need to think about it before responding.
“Remember the story about a soldier saying Obama had snubbed troops prior to a photo shoot? The soldier has partially recanted, according to this story. Does anyone think he was forced to do this?”
Naw …
This got my blood boiling, I am going to leave the Dem party and vote for McCain, I will no longer support any Dems except for Hillary. I hope she isn’t picked to be Obama’s VP and I hope that Obama and his camp ask her to be his VP and she says “sorry Bam, you’re on your own, I do not wish to be a VP” and then all hell will break loose, all the obvious vp candidates had refused Obama, and when Clinton refuses, she will also be blamed for him losing the election in November. But guess what DNC, we told you so, Obama is a gamble, and I really hope there are many October surprises this fall, I want to see him lose by a landslide.
so, Obama is the love child of Rove and Brazile?!
This would explain the birth certificate forgery…
Ha ha! I think you’re on to something. It would explain so much.
warrrrrrrrrrrrrfffffffffffffffffffggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhxxxxxxxxxxxxx
There goes breakfast
:)-~
and I won’t be hungry again until next month!
HEY good diet tip! Once a month picture the coupling of Donna and Karl and you are good for another month!
Of course you would soon die.
(we’d have to put that on the label right?)
hehee!
Another diet tip. Plaster a photo of Barack on the door of your fridge. And one of Michelle on the inside, just in case you get by the first.
Yup.
I totally can’t get my head around all this deviousiness and corruption. It boggles the mind and turns the stomach inside out.
The democrats must lose the election. All of the democrats. The congress full of superdelegates are just as rotten as the rest of them. There must be a whole new party in place for 2012. I wouldn’t trust any of them in there now (except maybe for Hillary’s really good friends).
No doubt this was a set up long in the making, Great article.
Thie is off topic, but I am surprisingly watching CNN, Reliable Sources, this morning and they are droning on and on about is it fair for the media to give one candidate so much more coverage than the other. It’s just so odd. They are talking about themselves, criticizing themsleves. To me, it seems as though it is a signal that things are going to change (change we can believe in-haha). I think this is how they now start the attacks quite frankly. Ofreakish will return and they will tone it down a bit and then starting September 1st, they will go on the attack. I think they will claim that due to Hype-the Obama effect movie, they started to investigate some of the allegations and are finding out these shocking things about Obama. Just my opinion. A turn of events is underway or they would just continue with the big love affair with no embarrassment or apologies.
from what I remember of Howie (if he was doing reliable sources this day) is that he “generally” takes no crap from either side and loves to prove or debate his thoughts with clips, etc.
I used to get angry that he wasn’t more partisan DEM. Now I appreciate it.
I also appreciate bloggers like yourself that watch these shows (when some of us can’t or won’t) and fill us in on how the mood is changing there.
Thanks again CS! I get much more from reading what the bloggers themselves think than I do from the actual blog itself. Reactions and movement have always fascinated me.
I cannot tell you how grateful I am for bloggers watching out for us and providing links to what otherwise would be concealed.
brazille makes me want to puke!! in fact she is so scummy she makes my dog want to puke!!!!
Pahahahha! (another great mental image)
Brazile has allowed herself to be used as Karl Rove’s tool. She is stupid. She and Dean will deserve the ignominious political ends they meet after Rove’s candidate, John McCain, is elected in a landslide.
Rove probably peed his pants with glee when she sought him out for advice. She was the one he’d been waiting for. In a year when the democrats could not have lost, he was able to help ensure republicans look better and get a shot at it once again.
I hate Rove, but you can’t help but say, Good job. Well played. Victory from the jaws of defeat once again.
Donna, glad to see you go. That word I can’t say in miuxed company (WICSIMC if you will) damn well better quit the party like she promised or the PUMAs will run her ass out!
I’m looking for a DOUBLE JEOPARDY and waiting to see our Lady HILLARY RISE from the ASHES that are Donna and Karl.
The SUPERS could make Donna’s worst nightmare or biggest threat come true. I’d love to see her exit DEM stage left and blame it all on the SUPERS.
lmao yea right try it gringo (gringa?) who knows.
And some courageous legal eagle helps to put her conniving royal ass in prison.
Leave it to Rove to identify and weed out the shit from the Dem party. I guess even a hitman has a place in the larger scheme of things.
Ehemmm….Commissar Donna Brazeal has a mortgage to pay after all….
Donna is a racist Brazile looks like a bag lady one sees in Large Urban areas. With her skunk wig, always askew, pushing that shopping cart.
That’s how DB will probably end up — she is nuts. There’s a real nasty photo of her — which reveals her as a nasty vile person — her face is all screw up in rage, her mouth is open and she is pointing her finger at someone.
Anything DB is part of — count me out. I read her email replies to individuals — DB should be in a mental hospital — or in serious therapy. It’s not the color of her skin that she shares with bambling — they are both bat shit crazy.
PUMA
Northwest rain….Sometimes you make so much sense I wish you were runnin things….( sigh ) agree with you….BATSHIT CRAZY! ( no offense to Bats intended )
Send this to every newspaper, magazine, and tv station you can think of. I am forwarding the link to John McCain campaign, and anybody else I can think of.
The joke is on Donna! What a jackass!
After the debacle of 2000 in Florida, and the unpopularity of the Bush administration, the Democratic Party had the high road, but with these maneuvers, it had lost any semblance of integrity. And once you’ve lost your good name, you have nothing.
This goes back to the Kennedy win in 1960. That win was attributed by Republicans to dirty politics in Chicago. In fact, when any allegations of GOP corruption in elections have occurred over the years, they always point to Chicago.
Now we have an ugly mess with this corrupt political neophyte out of Chicago claiming the presidency of the United States. And Dean and Kerry and Kennedy and Byrd and Daschle and Pelosi and Reid are all being exposed and it’s slimy and it’s embarrassing and it’s what they are.
The Chicago Machine is not really aligned with any party. Chicago is mostly Dems so they get the most publicity. The Chicago Machine is only loyal to one thing. MONEY. Corruption is stronger that party ties. Rezko bundled millions of dollars for Bush now he is in the tank for Obama. What does that tell you?
That should read; than party ties, not that party ties.
The fact that he has only been on our Mainland for 25 years or so is questionnable enough.
WTF?
Kool-aid? Col-lusion.
Funny. The other morning on Fox & Friends they were talking about votes by dead people being counted. Gretchen Carlson said, ’someone needs to look into this.’ Steve Ducey chuckled and said, ‘try Chicago’.
This is an excellent article, drawing everything together in one time line.
We all know what Brazile and the DNC have done, and continue to do. So many of us have left the Dem Party and almost all of us (including me) will not vote for Obama ever. Will that be enough to defeat them?
We all suspected the Republicans’ part in it. We have fallen for things like Fox News being the only fair reporters of the truth - all they need to do is tell the truth about Obama now to reach their goal.
And now many of us will vote for McCain, a better person and the lesser of two evils. We have played right into the Republicans trap. They are not our refuge - they are co-conspirators to the fall of democracy!
The DNC and the RNC have conspired together to the fall of democracy! What solution does that require?
As a single voice, with one vote, and a love for this country and democracy, I have been begging for a viable third party. But it is not about me. It is about the survival of democracy. I am not the only one who believed this was necessary. We have said there has been no better opportunity in the history of this country.
Some of us believe it was a mistake to discount the creation of a viable third party at this time. Maybe that is what Hillary was hoping would happen.
I hope and pray our movement is enough to defeat Obama. I have no hope the DNC would ever allow Clinton to get the nomination at the convention.
The only other choices are non-viable third party candidates, not voting, and writing in Hillary’s name. All of which equals throwing our votes away.
Wait, there is one other choice - the Republican trap - vote for McCain. Without a viable third party, this is our only chance to make sure Obama never sets foot in the Oval Office.
Each person owns their own vote. I would never suggest or recommend to anyone who they should vote for.
It is unthinkable to have Obama become President - ever! It is unthinkable to fall into the Republican trap. We have not started a viable third party.
I believe in our movement - it is great and having an impact - but where are we going?
McCain is the only choice to make the Dems clean house.
Voters have to stand up for democracy.
We can’t blame Rove for exposing the corruption in the Democratic Party.
WE are witness to HISTORY!
at the very least we should keep speaking out!
time, GOD (if you believe), space, all will work itself out as it should be……. and life progresses (or dies).
A new party doesn’t come about in such a short notice.
Right now McCain is the only choice we have. Obama is way too dangerous.
PUMA has the best chances to become a party - especially if it tries to unite all the smaller parties under one banner. It is possible if we all put aside our smaller differences and devote to one goal: preserve democracy and fair elections. In my opinion it is much more important than the differences between democratic and republican ideology.
If the election process was well regulated to prevent fraud and nasty machinations, we could have meaningful debates that doesn’t brush off the ‘lesser’ candidates. Not that I ever wanted to vote for Ron Paul or Joe Biden, but they deserved better treatment.
Our bigger problem is that democracy is disappearing from our lives. FISA is just the first of many more to come. Did you know that ALL credit card transactions will be reported to the IRS now? Pretty soon the watchers will know what I have for breakfast. It is getting worse than it was under the communist regimes.
Somehow Hillary must come back - now or in 2012. She promised long time ago to roll back the excess presidential powers. I belive her, she WILL do it. I can’t think of anyone else that would do the same.
Hillary, I miss you so much!
PUMA
Obama wants to get rid of the constitution.
Just when you think you have it all figured out, here comes an Obama operative, touted as a scholar and demanding to be rid of the constitution to protect Obama. Her name is Danielle and she magically appeared on the Washington Post scene with an opt ed. This is worse than you think.
It is a misconception that FISA is the first nail in the democracy coffin.
I truly hope that this movement is the beginning of that third party. We have to stay together through this election and beyond. We can’t afford to lose the momentum. We can make a big difference in 2012 as well with plenty of time to make decisions on how to go forward.
Our movement is enough if we stand firm. With all the media fawning; the money; the party bigwigs; and the unpopularity of the Repubs, Barack still hasn’t been able to significantly pull away from McCain. The media’s trying to wear us down with their inevitable bullshit to the point that we give up and stay home. I get discouraged at times, but I will not stay home in November. My ass and anyone else’s I can drag along with me, is going down to the booth in November and voting to stuff it back down the collective throats of Axelrod & Camp. I hope the muthafluckers choke on my McCain vote.
I hate Barack Obama.
I couldn’t find one damn thing I like about Obama.
why hate the post turtle?
I have MUCH sympathy for the post turtle.
I have much sadness for his neglected life as a child. I have never met him so I can’t say how I feel about him personally but I know for a fact I do NOT like his friends, associations, past BLT history OR HIS WIFE!!
And he SURE AS HELL is NOT CIC MATERIAL!
but I do feel sorry for his childhood
my own daughter deals with her mixed race heritage internally quite often as her father is a shit head like Barry’s (just the abandonment part)
Of course I was always with her so she never felt doubly abandoned. That must really hurt.
At this point I’m not about to believe the Obama story version of his life.
We will never know his mother’s side of the story.
BUT I do know for a fact that in Hawaii Obama’s mixed race heritage is common — and the fact that he spent a huge chunk of his life with his grandparents — no big deal — IN Hawaii.
From what we know from other family members, it was Obama’s choice to leave his mother’s home and return to Hawaii to live with his adoring grandparents.
Obama discovered he could use race to his advantage when he was in COLLEGE. He is the racist.
Childhood is not trauma free — Obama is an expert at making mountains out of mole hills.
Barry follows the money — as he always has and always will. MONEY is Barry’s the corner stone of Barry’s core values.
I don’t have any sympathy for the post turtle. He’s not the first to have a rough childhood. And all I have to do is watch him boldy lie about his committee, you know, the one he wasn’t even on, and I know he doesn’t deserve any sympathy. If he wants my sympathy he’ll withdraw from politics, get a good therapist and do honest & committed hard work on his personal abandonment issues. I refuse to sympathize with someone who flucks over anyone and everyone in their path in order to prop up their sorry sense of self-esteem. PS- I don’t feel any sympathy for John Wayne Gacey or Charles Manson either. They all chose their paths for dealing with their childhood pasts. We all do. Save your sympathy for children and for the adults who work to overcome their pasts without inflicting damage on others. Just remember, the sympathy factor is what abusive spouses rely on to keep their empathetic partners tied to them. Trust me. I know. Its not until a person can rid themselves of misplaced sympathy, that they can rid themselves and their children of the poisonous post turtles in their lives.
I hate Barry Dunham, too.
Bottom line, some Democrats and Republicans are working togeather NOT for the public good, but to stregnthen their own grip on the U.S. Treasury, and tax-payer money.
The “Illinois Combine” goes to Washington.
It may take years to undo the damage.
Brazile is as corrupt, ienpt and stupid as Dean, Pelosi, Reid and the rest of them. Rove is evil along w the gang he led around, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield etc. I’ve never seen such corruption in my life. McCain looks like a saint compared to them. I hope once McCain wraps this up, we can work on a third party. Lou Dobbs has been saying we need more than 2 parties to choose from for quite some time.
The question is
Sensible Party
Silly Party
or
Very Silly Party
The moderate party!
I’m fine with the “I can HANDLE the TRUTH Party”
The Party party.
What a terrific article! Thank you Rosemary!! Listen everyone, its still NOT OVER YET! With conditions improving in Iraq (due to the ’surge’ or not) its becoming much clearer how badly Obambi will be crushed in November. Keep shouting at anyone that will listen: Hillary must be our nominee!!
Hillary should be our nominee. Obama should be thrown out. But no matter WHAT, it won’t happen because the race card would be played big time and the dems are afraid. I say too bad, the best candidate should be put forward, but they are spineless.
While none of this surprises me, it is good to see it so well put together in one diary.
There is one problem for Donna and her plan. The part of the party she wants to stay home will indeed be voting in November.
There is one other problem: Donna’s failure to recognize the ability of history to repeat itself. Just ask George McGovern.
Obama could NOT have won those caucuses with the ORGANIZATION ON THE GROUND… DFA, an organization formed from Howard Dean’s old campaign whose mission was to advance progressive issues and candidates in all 50 states.
And DFA was highly effective and its members were well insinuated into the political houses in every state.
Even though DFA members in the last poll I saw had voted overwhelmingly for Kuchinich to get their endorsement… imagine the surprise of many members when they received an email from Jim Dean, president of DFA and Howard Deans brother telling us that OBAMA was to be endorsed.
I don’t think most DFA members knew that this organization was going to be used as a tool in the coup detat for Bambi. Matter of fact, I know many who after protesting (and being ignored) resigned from the organization. Myself included.
Since NoQuarter reprinted this article, a paragraph on the DFA angle has been added (in the section right below the Cronin election results table). There’s also a link there to a blog describing what happened, which I’ve replicated below. Thanks for the tip, Linda.
http://ladyboomernyc.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/oops-didnt-realize-i-was-so-late-deans-dfa/
This article just made me bawl. It is the best explanation why this country is in such desparate need of a third party.
I dont for the life of me get why anyone would be on the dems side,,knowing full well the scam they have supported who is clearly out to destroy this country…that includes clinton, kerry dean gore kennedy reid pelosi…on and on…they selected him..and you still want to kiss their butts? for the party? are you not americans first?
Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can
no longer fly
Walking Eagle is the name given to a bird so full of shit it can
no longer fly, thats what indians call him
The writer, a freelance writer and former reporter for the Reporter-Dispatch and New York Daily News, lives in White Plains.
http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080726/OPINION/807260316
I have read up on Party history….You are correct.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN AT THE CONVENTION….It has before and it can again.
The Fat lady has not sung ( colloquial term that will most likely be outlawed in the New America as deemed offensive and imperialistic….Fascism Deplores Humor and all allusions to OPERA….TOO EUROCENTRIC )
insulting people is NOT humor, stupid!
Exscuse me….I meant to say Specially trained vocalist of the Female gender specializing in OPERA who is not a size 6 ( US ) but still wears Viking Armor and appears to solo at the end of Wagners’ Ring Cycle….Signifying to the Hoi poloi the end of said OPERA….SHEEESH!
Love the rewrite WorkingClassArtist. Good one. LOL
The fraud SICKENS me to my stomach!
I never thought I would feel this way about another politician, a “democrat” at that. But trust the undemocratic party to select the one person who I will not vote for under any circumstance!
I may not agree with mccain on everything, but I trust him to keep America and americans best interest always.
I have never voted repub before for anything, this year.. I’m voting straight repub, unless I see a good democrat.
Him skipping seeing wounded soldiers b/c camera’s wouldn’t be allowed SICKENS me to my stomach, I have friends in the military. I take this very personally, I will never forgive him for this huge slap in the face to our troops!
He can visit Walter Reed all he wants..when he comes back.. all that will show me is he a clown and insincere!
THe dems have been played by the republicans.. and sadly they dont even know it yet.. THEY WILL IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please vote for the down-ticket Dems and just skip the top line. It doesn’t serve liberal or moderate principles in any way to vote Republican.
McCain08
Hillary/Puma
Oh yes it does, it teaches a great lesson.
Maybe you’re right, but I cannot vote Republican. If the Republican beats Obama (assuming Obama is the nominee), then I won’t cry but I won’t be a part of electing that Republican (or Obama). Just can’t do it.
Then you give up your choice and forfeit your vote. I’m not telling you what to do, but I want anyone who is considering sitting home in November to think about all the good German people who sat it out on the sidelines. They could’ve stopped Hitler’s rise to ultimate power and the destruction of their country. Apathy is the enemy. We must stop Obama. Party is irrelevant. Look at the person. Look at the core of who he is. And make no mistake, this has nothing whatsoever to do with color or lack of.
I want to PUNISH THE PARTY, they are all in this together and a purge needs to happen, I live in Michigan, what the hell was that?? Wake up, drive these people to DEFEAT, that’s the only way you can clean House is with a clean sweep. I voted for DEMS for 40 years but never again until a complete purge takes place and they get some leaders that understand what DEMOCRACY MEANS. These people are worse than anything I’ve seen since 1960.
This all needs to be investigated. The article provides a great amount of information in one place at one time, which is great; thank you.
But, there is so much more than meets the eye and it is only one issue among many, many deceits that the MSM has dutiful shoved in the closet.
I live in Michigan, I saw what happened here, it was a OBAMANATION, giving votes to someone that WASN’T ON THE BALLOT, This is AMERICA, not some damn Banana Republic, what don’t you understand about that?
Agree Hank….Purge and do it downticket…starting with Pelosi’s seat.
Her opponent is getting $$ from all over the country….
I’m from Texas by the way…We joined that ever growing region of the country screwed by the DNC in March….I am right with ya!
Region name : Ohiomichiflotexindiagan….I probably left out a few states
I want to punish some of them, Hank, too — but not all of them, especially those down-ticket. We can punish Dean, Obama, and their biggest cheerleaders, such as Dodd, McCaskill, Pelosi, Reid, etc., by withdrawing ALL contributions at the national level and by abstaining from a vote on the top line. (Withdrawing contributions, BTW, will also punish people like Brazile and her cohorts at the DNC.) But, to vote for the Republicans means to vote FOR their anti-gay bigotry, FOR their resistance to stem cell research, FOR their marauding and militaristic foreign policy, FOR their rightwing judges, and on and on. I won’t vote FOR any of their agenda and, if you’re a 40-year Democrat, I can’t understand why you would either.
Fight fire with fire. My Republican votes are being cast in the spirit of shoving their bile right back down their throats. And believe me, I have a stake in stem cell research. My son’s a quadriplegic (broke C5 & C6). He’s voting Republican this year too. And sometimes the biggest deterrent to war is having leadership that’s considered hawkish and not to be flucked with. The hostages sat in Iran for how long with Carter as President? And how long were they there once Reagan was sworn in? I am a lifelong Dem who has grown up fast over the last 6 months. Life aint fair but you accept it and deal with it. Like I said, fight fire with fire and my vote is aflame.
Obama is a neocon with a (D) behind his name.Obama said he didn’t subscribe to labels when asked by Stephanopolis if he had more of a Dem or Repub stance. McCain is not a neocon.
This article simply proves how stupid Brazile is for one simple reason, using old Rovian tactics is like trying to win a sporting event using your opponents developed game-plan, it never works out since the developer of the game plan has alternatives to each move, the copier doesn’t.
Brazile made one other major error, promoting a candidate that is African American appeals to a population of 11% of the population and that only has a voting voice of about 7%. Promoting a candidate that appeals to more than 50% of the population gives larger odds of winning even if that candidate has some areas considered to be paralizing to some.
The error by the DNC and especially SD’s was to not pay close attention to the Primary’s, which proved that the candidate that was considered polorizing to some still captivated the majority of the popular vote, while facing conplete bashings by the media over everything including racism and sexism. Meanwhile the candidate of no substance lost the popular vote, required delegate stealing and threats to captivate SD’s.
One eye opening light came the day Jesse Jackson Jr. chastized his father openly was a real disterbing factor in this entire election season as it showed the sort of people who are taking over the DNP, when a done nothing low life politician is willing to throw a life long hard working civil rights champion under the bus, who also happens to be the candidates father, for speaking the truth.
Carl Rove, one thing anyone who has a single working brain cell knows is that a want to be con can never out smart the master con artist. When you get through with shredding Obama in November Carl, your life long dream will be achieved, you single handedly will have destroyed the Democratic Party, thanks to Brazile and Dean!
Karl Rove wrote an article in December 2007 and one in April 2008 giving Obama advice on how to win the primary. Obama clearly has used Rovian tactics.
The connection between Rove and Obama is now clear: it’s Brasile.
Brasile, the hateful, corpulent individual who wants to create a “new” Democratic Party that excludes the long-time “base” Democrats.
It appears she and Obama have have taken advice (or marching orders?) from Rove and are destroying the Democratic Party, and are willing to bring American down to get Obama placed in power.
We now know who the covert Republicans are in the race. It’s Brasile and Obama and NOT PUMA members.
Thank you the article.
The sad thing.. these morons don’t know they took advise from rove to make sure mccain will win..
think about …in a year when a dem should have been a shoe-in…. it will a mcgovern style victory for mccain.. only rove could have played this ..
and these dems are so stupid.. they dont even realise they have been played!
morons like brazilla and the fraud may have taken a page out of the repubs playbook, BUT the repubs wrote that playbook, they will adjust as needed…
the whole time the dems will be left holding the bag with no presidency in november saying “what happened???”
I’m tired of DNP leadership that continues to be used as saps by the RNP. The DNP leadership has consistently, with the exception of the Clinton years, been outsmarted by the RNP.
Pelosi never should have taken impeachment off the table, even if the Democrats had no intention of pursuing it. As a negotiation tactic, you use a strong card and impeachment of Bush was a very strong card.
It’s embarrassing to say I’m a registered Democrat at this point.
The DNP leadership has divided the party, put Obama in the forefront and set the party up for failure once again. Brawny brazile is a joke who obvious only cares about advancing her own career and power.
Old Tip is rolling and gagging in his grave….Bless his cantankerous old soul….
After being exposed to the attempted hijacking of this story by the crap comments at the outset (and please Susan and Larry, delete those people), I ran into this comment by LesleeE | 2008-07-27 08:35:26, which perfectly captured my own reaction to this extraordinary piece of reporting and summary.
As LesleeE said…
May the Fates visit upon Ms. Brazile and “Dr. Dean” and their cohorts in this coup d’party their just desserts of ignominy.
And please, fellow HRC supporters, distribute this story far and wide. It may be too late; or it may not.
It’s time for Uppity to quote Euripides.
The NYT ran a HIT PIECE on Bill Clinton today.
They have been running hit pieces on Charlie Rangel for weeks.
Real Democrats are now targets. Those of us who are paying attention about Obama’s backers KNOW they are into something other than democracy and playing like the Bushco people, probably not real republicans..
Corporations can’t grow under true democracy and that is the underlying issue.
The title was rough. “Maybe He’s Lonely.” I’d feel just skippy if my choice was being alone or campaigning for Obama.
No wonder the New York Times Company profits plummeted by 82% in one year. If this keeps up, the NYT will be a memory and not a newspaper.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/23/new-york-times-company-pr_n_114492.html
If the death of the New York Times ever comes,
it will be a great reason to celebrate the end of tyranny.
Just sent a link to this story to the executive editor at the NY Times. Distribute this piece far and wide folks.
I have to add a point to this wonderful article that I would like to see Ms. Regelio (or someone!) investigate. First consider these background points:
1. We have Obama’s incredible “ground game” now shown to be a Rovian tactic. The 50-state strategy means they’re going to have operatives on the ground at every precinct in America.
2. We have 1000s of electronic voting machines proven repeatedly to be vulnerable to hacking.
3. We have Obama’s legions of technocratic testosteronated henchmen who’ve proven repeatedly their hacker abilities by taking down opponents’ web sites.
Now, connect the dots. This general election could be the end of democracy as we know it.
and we have Michelle Robinson Obnoxious’ prediction:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESsaVSTSYxQ
If you should listen to this, bear in mind that she sounds as though she is speaking out about sexism rather than race, though she doesn’t mention that ism.
Wonder if she needs a primal scream?
If because I have been told no over and over and that my scores were not high enough, then I must be Black, too. Hey, that’s cool with me.
Hillary Clinton will be inaugurated on January 20th, 2009.
I was suspicious the Repub’s were involved in some way and my intuition was right. How STUPID can someone like Brazile be to take advice from Karl Rove who is as dirty, evil and corrupt as they come?? After stealing the WH not once, but twice w a drunk, frat, AWOL party boy. God help us, PLEASE.
actually if this is true, I want to see Donna Brazil caught underneath the spokes the the Obama bus. Infact I want her so badly distroyed politically she will never work in washington again. Let him just drag her a few miles be hind the darn thing. No one should get away with allowing push to get away with voter fraud and iraq, and she belongs no were near government. And I want her candidate to do it to her. cause if Obama throws granny under the bush, he should have no problems mangling donna.
this might take longer because granny was white and Brazile is black.
I like your description of Donna going under the bus. The only thing I’d add is Obama getting hopelessly entangled in her apron strings and going under with her. LMFAO!
A MUST READ!!! Read last Blog…
http://www.plnewsforum.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/34772/
Good link, Obama is hooked up with all the radicals he can find, his connection with William Ayers is long and deep, why doesn’t Obama’s website mention his good work as Chairman of the Annenberg Challenge grant in Chicago?? I’d love to see this Brazile - Rove connection printed in every newspaper in the country, thePEOPLE need to read this
If DB was trying to reenergize the voters and bring the party back to core dem. values as stated in the “Why Americans Hate Dems”, she failed miserably by pushing BO. She actually accomplished the total opposite. I think she was duped. Now, the core democratic voters are for the Republicans to gain. The black vote will also be eroded when Reps hammer home how little BO has done for them in Chicago.
Had HRC been the nominee, the mission would have been accomplished.
Real Democrats are now the targets. Just like real republicans said the Bush admin. did not act like republicans, the Obama supporters and backers are also something else.
Corporations cannot grow under a democracy any more. Hence this ‘melding’ of parties. Where not in ‘Kansas’ anymore..
It’s all fixed. It’s all rigged. So many people pushing it. Hello? calling divine intervention…
Maybe Tap Dancin’ Jesus will show up at the Convention…and we can all begin anew
“It’s ironic when you think about it. The DNC’s Voting Rights Institute was created to stop exclusionary practices and increase participation at the polling booth. Now its chairwoman is presiding over one of the most hostile and fraudulent campaigns since those newspaper delivery trucks ran over the boy scouts in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.”
…………………………………….
Donna Brazile at the RBC Meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGb1ob1bowI
“Everyone showed their hand”?
It sounds more like a POKER GAME than a committee to ensure voters rights/civil rights. How does a public meeting, get orchestrated the night before to practice what they are going to say? How does a committee have more power than the constitution, ONE PERSON ONE VOTE…where is the part of declaring a person 1/2 a VOTE?!? WE HAVE BEEN GAMED!
Donna Brazile at the RBC Meeting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGb1ob1bowI
This guy has been reading this blog:
McCain Surrogate: Obama A “Fraud” Backed By “Pack Of Goons”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0708/McCain_surrogates_blog_calls_Obama_a_fraud_backed_by_a_pack_of_goons.html
How lucky for Obama that he can play the race card in light of his most recent gaffe.
My nose was onto this connection all along.
I missed Donna’s chats with W though.
Thanks for a thorough, much needed investigation.
This was how far I came myself in putting this together:
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/06/17/donna-ne-coke-andkarl/
Wow! Incredible information. I agree with cheaterFLvoter - this should be required reading for all democrats.
Obama is a train wreck in the making. As the song goes “know when to hold ‘em and know when to fold ‘em.” Time to fold because the American people are not going to go for this.
This can all go away by the SD voting for the interest of the American People instead of filling their own campaign coffers.
This is an excellent article and it spells it out so anyone can see what has happened in this election season and how Donna Brazile masterminded the whole scenario to keep Hillary Clinton from getting the nomination. Every day more and more people are waking up and smelling the roses. The cheating and underhanded acts that have gone on in this election are an embarrassment to the Democratic Party. The truth will prevail because when all is said and done–cheaters never win and winners never cheat. I pray that the superdelegates will do the right thing for America and cast their vote for Hillary Clinton because if they fail to do so, Barack Hussein Obama will lead our country down the path of mass destruction. Don’t be surprised if he gets the nomination that Donna Brazile will become a high ranking member of his staff or perhaps she will be his Vice President or a Cabinet member. We must stop this train before it derails and wrecks and destroys not only what is left of the Democratic Party but more importantly what is left of our great nation.
Wow. Chilling article. And when she says “you cannot win hearts that way..” she really is at her most diabolical, because by emphasizing the new young and tender voters who were ready to “fall in love” … they did indeed win hearts. Hearts that are destined to be shattered. Brava, Rosemary Regello. But where do we go next?
There’s more where that came from
http://www.thecityedition.com/Pages/Archive/Winter08/2008Election.html
It may turn our that Obama is in fact the REPUBLICAN candidate - brought to you by Karl Rove as part of his Permanent GOP power plan. Apparently he’s looking for a Republican VP such as Richard Lugar who went on his world tour with him.
When he first started to be center stage I told my friends “this guy is Karl Rove’s wet dream.”
I did not realize that donna was his handler.
The saddest thing about this is in the future you may have the most qualified black nominee and no one will listen or trust them.
The harm that was done will takes years to repair.
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS
PUMA RULES
I disagree. There are still several blacks whom I would love to see run. And I would vote for them in a heartbeat. (And I’m not referring to Rice or Powell.) I just don’t believe that most Americans are going to hold the abomination against qualified others. I don’t think any differently about any of the people in my life, because of anything that has happened in this election cycle. I know my friends. I know my family. And anyone who wants to make race an issue or excuse can kiss my rosy ass. If that’s where their head’s at, that’s their problem. I’ve no reason to care.
This is a great article.
There are more things that also bothered me.
1- They say that these 4 states had to vote first. Well, Florida voted January 29 - which was after all those 4 states. I really don’t hear people talking too much about that.
Jan 3rd – Iowa
Jan 8th – New Hampshire
Jan 15th – Michigan
Jan 19th – Nevada
Jan 26th – South Carolina
Jan 29th - Florida
This should really be reason enough to not screw the Florida voters…yet again.
2- They say Florida didn’t act in good faith to try to move the primary. They tried with legislation. Then Bill Nelson sued the DNC. He even tried to negotiate with Dean. Nothing worked.
http://billnelson.senate.gov/news/details.cfm?id=284931&
3- There is going to be an election Aug 5th in Michigan. They could have very easily had a revote and it wouldn’t have cost nearly as much as a regular revote.
4- The way Brazille and everyone always talked about “if Clinton did win the nomination, everyone would feel as if she stole it”. WTF??? It only makes sense in the world of Obamania.
All I can say is THANK YOU HILLARY!
Without staying in until the last dog dies, we would not be in the position to uncover all this corruptness about Obama and the DEM Party.
Damn good point! Had she left when they first tried to shove her out, most people would have coalesced around an early nominee, and the Obama thug tactics may never have been exposed. Really good point.
Truly Lou.
The picture of pig Brazille makes me want to puke.
So, she gets here Political Strategy from Rove? Not surprising. A pig is going to fall in love with a pig, not a swan.
She got her make up tips from Tammy Faye Bakker. The more hideous, the better.
Google hideous and you find a photo of Brazille.
D. Brazille is not very smart. In trying to rebuild the Dem party she has effectually destroyed it and driven millions of voters in the opposite direction. The grass roots action is always young people and as they age their values and points of view will change and many will become republicans. How many hippie baby boomers grew up and now are repubs living in the suburbs. Brazile forgot to consider the cycle of life. Some of these young obarf followers will see him for what he is, a typical politician, and jump over to the candidates of Nader’s ilk. Either way you will not retain what you think you have built brazile. What you have effectually done is make Hillary Clinton stronger and more powerful, and driven her base from your party. How can you replace those loyal voters? You cant, unless you are trying to commit election fraud in heavily populated AA area’s which won’t account for what you drove out. If the race was going to be close your strategy might work, but sorry to inform you Obarf will lose in a landslide because of your obvious disregard for the rules you claim to hold precious.
You had to go above and beyond to get your skunk the nomination and you depended on the stupidity of people and their willingness to look the other way. But lo and behold they surprised you and understood what they saw happening and will not sit complacently by as you and your skunk pull a fast one.
Oh donna it is you that is the fool dear. It is your stupidity and your willingness to look the other way that will cause you and your skunks downfall. This is all too funny.
That is exactly how I saw things play out over this Democratic race, of course I didn’t have all this information - but Isaw that corruption with Brazille was hard and fast. I cannot, nor will I ever reward Obama for cheating, lying and thuggery that has taken place in the DNC and Caucus States.
Ling live a Hillary Clinton Nomination or GO GO GO John McCain.
If I was so inclined I would say Patry Unity My Ass - (*^@#&*(%^&*) suck it Brazille and the DNC.
BTW - Obama loses more votes from the LGBT community than any presumptive nominee in history. This is what happens when you select a nominee rather than elect a nominee. Obama loses a huge portion of Gay America when the Demcocratic Party should have them hands down.
“Among LGBT adults, 60 percent favor Obama while 14 percent favor McCain. Three percent of LGBT adults favor Barr, while 1 percent choose Nader. Six percent choose ‘other,’ while 17 percent of all LGBT voters are not yet sure which candidate to support — comparable to the general population. Among independents, Obama has a 12-point lead (38 percent to 26 percent), but one-quarter of independents are not sure, 4 percent would vote for Bob Barr and 3 percent for Ralph Nader. The findings also show that 90 percent of African-Americans are voting for Obama, as are six in 10 Latinos. Whites, however, are leaning towards McCain over Obama (40 percent versus 34 percent).”
I see what the republicans and the demcrats are doing now.They are sticking more in the race to take away from John McCain.
Donna Brazile~Howard Dean~Obama~Karl Rove~Bush,I bet he is in on this as well.and all the others who did this should have charges on them How dare they rigg this up as we knew.Oh and the media Keith Olbermann and the rest.
Well Denver for HillayBallot for Hillary if not I am voteing McCain.
Why isn’t anyone saying anything of Obama’s birth certuficate that was a real.?
Pass this around to everone of your friends and have them pass it around as well.
We will pass it around.As I said there is no place in our goverment for Donna Brazile or antone else to stael an election~They should be brought up on charges now!
Never Obama!
Hillary for president 08
McCain for president 08
Now the media is doing the same to McCain trying to make up the lostof Hillary supporters are not coming or falling to give Obama their vote.The media is a joke.And I laugh on Obama’s faked media…What a loser Obama is.
A dangerous people.I can’t even call him a senator.He will use the people~He will say what ever is at the monment no matter in another state he said different.The media want’s Obama.Bush~Media ~Obama~Democratic pary of some~Republicans of some Bush arer all in this together..They want Bush Jr.They want the money to continue.Bush = Obama
What do we do, and where do we go next?
This canm not be allowed to go on !This has to be stopped and bring all the corrupted people in our goverment to leave now!
Help build Hillary’s lead as V.P???????? No!We are going to Denver.Hillary has won this election.And by taken votes~Delegates and more away to keep her behind and giving more to Obama from what she won.Bull! No V/P for Hillary. It’s Madam President.
This is so corrupted~Why would anyone want the democratic Party and some of the republicans in what they did and still planning to do,WHY?
They make me sick! We need to do something now,So what are we going to do?Write Hillary~ Tell her to do not drop out.
No wonder why they are giving John McCain a hard time as they did Hillary. Dam..nsiders on both sides.
Vote Hillary 08
Vote McCain 08
Write your letters.
No V.P for Hillary.I will never vote OBAMA NEVER!
Hillary nominnee for president or bust to McCain!
Can someone get this posted at realclearpolitics.com, They have a section called Best of the Blogs and then they have a place for readers to post articles. I have very poor computer skills but would love to see this exposed to many more readers. Or take a collection for money to buy a full page in the NYT and print the entire article, taht would get cobverage from the MSM, look at what happened with the MoveOn.org Gen Betrayus Ad.
Donna Brazile that she will destroy the Democratic Party and in the process she will destroy herself because she is no longer believable and she will never win another election.
Rover’s destructive days are over and he will die a lonely bitter man that all Americans will despise.
With the movie “Recount” we witnessed the corruption all the way up to the Federal Supreme Court in the 2000 general election.
And now we have witnessed the corruption, and self destruction of the Democratic Party. The dumbest political party that we have ever witnessed;
They permit Republicans to vote in the primaries!
They have caucuses, which are ripe for intimidation and thuggery Chicago style.
I am very saddened because if America, the greatest country, the most powerful country is corrupt in both political parties, that is the beginning of the end of the American Ruling Empire and I will bet that George Soris is a very happy man indeed.
There was a chance of revival and futuristic development with Hillary Rodham Clinton but the Democratic and Republican party has tried to put an end to that hope, but we at PumaPac, Just Say No Deal, Denver Group et al will do our very best to get H.R. Clinton elected and we call on all of you to help save America from the cancer flowing through the Brazile style democrats and the Rove style republicans…
This is your country and your voice needs to be heard loud and clear come the November elections.
This makes me SO ANGRY, all over again!!
How am I going to go to sleep now??
If there was any doubt before, this confirms it. DB put party before country. And that, in a nutshell, is what has so many voters pissed off.
Digg the article here:
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Donna_Brazile_Karl_Rove_Connection_CityEdition_com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4qGB-NpiNo
No nope no way!He is full of hisself.
Ok we will..Let’s tell them We don’t.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ynUZ6W7xw
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